Less than 10 days

Well it doesn't look like you need any.....I love the design of your page.....especially the tree (how did you do that?) and the ribbon and holly!
And if that's your tree it's beautiful!

Deconstructing a layout:

The background was pre-made. It looks like a brush was used to create the Christmas tree. A holly border graphic was then added by the scrapbook kit designer - then the finished product flattened as jpg background.

I added the ribbon and cut out the area on either side of the stand because I could not put it under base as the tree was part of a flattened jpg

By erasing, you can easily make things look like they are underneath something even if the item is part of a already created jpg. Turns out I didn't need to bother erasing because later I found a nice bow I wanted to be part of the ribbon and it covered up the erasure.

When erasing on a graphic, use a mask or work on a copy of the graphic.  I usually duplicate the layer, turn one off and drag it to the bottom of the stack to get it away from the layers that are an actual part of the design.  By keeping an unedited copy of the graphic, I can always go back and start over. 

However, using a mask is a more sensible choice - masks can always be edited or deleted and your graphic will be untarnished.  However, for some reason, masks are not usually my first choice when I start changing a graphic.  And you can't imagine how many times I was sorry I screwed up the original graphic and was not able to find it again to start over.  Thus, a copy in the layer stack has saved me more times than I can count. 

hmmmmm - maybe a mask would be a more sensible choice. 

The bells are two copies of same graphic, one resized

Bird was added to bells

The decorative button was added to fill dead space - it just seemed to need something and I liked the button

That cat thing has been my logo for all layouts in 2022, however, I needed it to fit in better, so I erased the frame around the cat

Title was two copies of same text in two different colors - one layer offset by using the move tool and the arrow keys. I move one text layer both sideways and down.  Realize you can move a layer 5 pixels at a time by holding down the shift key while you use the arrow keys.

Frame was simple outlining - enlarged after selecting the outside of the photo.  Outline layer was duplicated and then moved sideways and down.  

Photo has layer styles added to soften edges.

As you can see, there's no real originality in the page. I have been in an outlining, softening photos, double text offsetting mode all year. LOL

The secret of this page was the already created background - which was both a curse and a benefit.  I had to work around the graphics on the background because I wanted them to be part of the page.  That led the design to be mostly on one half of the layout.

I wanted to do something to the tree to 'decorate' it, but I just couldn't figure out what to do - thus the ribbon/bow is the only added thing.